Changing the focus (in the World Book of Happiness)
"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within."  (Ramona L. Anderson)   |   "Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence."  (Leo Tolstoy)   |   "The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily."  (Plato)   |   "Only the really happy person has real peace, and only the person who has peace can be really happy. ...the highest kind of happiness, to be realized through the liberating wisdom or insight into the true nature of things."  (Bhikkhu Prayudh Payutto)   |   "I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."  (John Stuart Mill)   |   "I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness." "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."  (Dalai Lama)   |   "Where there is peace, there is happiness."  (Ajahn Chah)

  • The Chairman of European Council sent the "World Book of Happiness" to all world leaders including President Barack Obama.




  • New International Journal of Happiness and Development

    calls for papers